Skeptical article from the Kansas City Star

Today's Kansas City Star article is one of the most skeptical newspaper pieces to date.

Some excerpts:

“I don’t believe it’s there, and I haven’t from the get-go,” said Mark Robbins, a nationally noted ornithologist at the University of Kansas.
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“The one thing Cornell seems to have established is that there are no ivory bills down there,” Robbins said.
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Business owners in Clarenden, Ark., are being told in meetings to keep the faith, said Donald Branch, acting mayor. They’re hoping for an eco-tourism boom from ivory bills, such as for the city’s Big Woods Birding Festival on May 20.

“If they’re not there, most tourists have never seen a cottonmouth water moccasin,” Branch said of the poisonous snake. “We know we can find those.”